Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

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So let's ask ourselves, are there any interaction effects when we talk about the human condition ? that it's life followed by death?"

所以让我们问问自己，当我们讨论,生后即是死的人类处境时,有没有相互影响“

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His examples are typically drawn from situations of human beings or polities in extremes where the very survival or independence of a society is at stake.

他的范例是,典型地取材自人类,或政体在极端下的处境,即当存活或一个社会的独立,已面临考验。

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It's a fact about the human condition that the amazing things we are don't stay amazing.

这是关于人类处境的一个事实,我们不能保持了不起。

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So you might think, ? well, what about the human condition as a whole?

你们可能会想，那么整个人类的处境呢？

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And we might think, look, this is one of the negative things about the human condition that we get a taste of life-- nothing more--before it's snatched away.

我们可能会想，瞧，这是关于人类处境的一个负面的内容,我们尝到了生命的滋味-,仅此而已，在它被夺走前。

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The negative combination effects that I was talking about are certainly there, but on balance I think the human condition for must of us is a good one.

我所说的负面组合影响是肯定有的，但我认为人类的处境对大部分人来说是好的。

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On the one hand, the optimists might say, "Even when we throw in the extra interaction effects, even the negative interaction effects, the overall nature of the human condition is positive.

一方面，乐观主义者可能说，“就算我们把另外的相互影响，就算把负面的相互影响算进去，人类处境的总体本质还是积极的。

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What's the overall assessment of the human condition?

如何对人类的处境进行整体的评估？

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That's the human condition--life followed by death.

那就是人类的处境，生后即是死。

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To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

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